Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 2 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 3 | It means I carry or I take it with me . |
| 4 | Er , it 's like , it 's like the foreman on the shopfloor for some reason , there 's a er , in the systems or whatever , er , the warehouseman er , the night porter er , when he takes over , he knows what he 's doing , he knows what I want , because I 've spoken to him about it , erm , he knows what items I want to leave for stock people , erm , and Sue , the checkout manager , she 'll know if I want extra people on the shopfloor because we 're quiet , or I expect it to be quiet , erm , she knows where they 've got to be , and I 'll come back and review it with her . |
| 5 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 6 | Most of us are labouring under beliefs which limit our potential , or create personal trauma and suffering , or which deprive us of the magic and joy of being alive . |
| 7 | Oh I 've been to , or you rephrase it in another way . |
| 8 | Either you tip the dustmen to take it away or you take it to the tip yourself . |
| 9 | So I said do you want the truth or you want me to yourself ? |
| 10 | Scie Scientific or You want it in scientific mode if it says scientific |
| 11 | Outgoing FAXES are produced in much better quality than normal FAX machines as there is no ‘ scanning ’ of the original document — the only disadvantage is that you can not send an existing document , unless it has been previously sent to you , or you key it into Word processing or Desk Top Publishing . |
| 12 | You can install the program on a hard disk if you have one , or you run it from two floppy disk drives . |
| 13 | If you do n't get to the finishing line through injury or you cross it in pain , seek help quickly . |
| 14 | Accepting this state of affairs many women are actually grateful to ‘ understanding ’ employers who are ‘ flexible ’ about hours on site , or who provide them with homework , to be done simultaneously with looking after the children . |
| 15 | ‘ Either we terrorise them into submission , or we abandon them to the vacuum of a permissive existence . |
| 16 | If the horse is thumped by the farrier , or we belt it with a cane , the horse is likely to become so upset that the chances are we will never be able to shoe the horse ! |
| 17 | ‘ Prince ’ is not so much a person as a persona , a space , in which he can become anything he or we want him to be . |
| 18 | Either one of two things : either the period of primitive accumulation is taken just as ‘ pre-history ’ ; in which case it has a strict time-limit … or we see it as a process of ousting ‘ third persons ’ in general — in which case the concept itself has to be abolished , since in that case it does not express anything special , specific , etc . |
| 19 | Or they put them under the wrong door . |
| 20 | They usually deal with the situation in one of two ways — they patronise you and try to take control on the assumption that you must need their guidance to do a decent job ; or they undermine you by making obscene remarks and deliberately causing problems . |
| 21 | Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past . |
| 22 | Send an emissary , or yourself approach him under a flag of truce . |
| 23 | Any queries questions or what have you about that ? |
| 24 | or what have you in the chapel , they 'd go |
| 25 | How about your Christmas card this year ? why not knit one and them photograph it for a really professional look ? |
| 26 | This way , Dad and I get you for a little longer . |
| 27 | And I get it on my forehead , down here |
| 28 | Elton does n't deserve to be called the worst , he 's very stylish and I dress him for the country . |
| 29 | ‘ And I envy you for living here in these surroundings . ’ |
| 30 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |